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Alexander III of Russia
Alexander III of Russia, born Alexander Alexandrovich (Александр III, 1845–1894), was Emperor of All Russia from 1881 to 1894, remembered as the Peacemaker because Russia fought no wars under him.
Black Hundreds (Чёрная сотня)
Black Hundreds (Чёрная сотня), right-monarchist parties of the Russian Empire formed during the 1905–1907 revolution to defend unlimited autocracy, Orthodoxy, and Russian dominance; largest was the Union of the Russian People; known for pogroms and assassinations.
Eurasianism (евразийство)
Eurasianism (евразийство) is a Russian ideological movement founded by émigrés in the 1920s, notably Trubetskoy and Savitsky, holding Russia to be a distinct Eurasian civilization; revived as Dugin's neo-Eurasianism and reflected in Putin's Eurasian Union.
Nuclear Orthodoxy
Nuclear Orthodoxy, or Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy, is the doctrine from Dmitry Adamsky's 2019 book holding that Russia's nuclear arsenal and the Orthodox Church are the two pillars of the Russian state, expressed in weapon blessings and patron saints.
Pyotr Stolypin (Пётр Аркадьевич Столыпин)
Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin (Пётр Аркадьевич Столыпин, 1862–1911), Russian prime minister 1906–1911 under Nicholas II; author of the 9 November 1906 agrarian reform dissolving peasant communes, the June 1907 electoral coup, and field courts martial; assassinated in Kiev by Dmitry Bogrov.
Russia under Vladimir Putin
Russia under Vladimir Putin: the political system since 31 December 1999 (prime minister 2008–2012), marked by centralized personalist rule, 2020 constitutional changes allowing rule until 2036, the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and intensified repression.